A Vietnamese delegation of 40 businesses will come to Japan to attend Vietnam-Japan Economic Forum. The information was released by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) at a recent meeting to review activities of the forum in the first six months of this year.
Despite facing difficulties due to the global economic slow down, the Vietnam-Japan Business Forum has maintained its activities as planned. The forum has minimised unnecessary costs for its activities and has actively mobilised businesses’ cooperation to hold its events. The forum’s conferences are organised on a large scale, attracting a number of enterprises operating in various areas.
According to a report from VCCI, in the first half of this year, the Vietnam-Japan Economic Forum provided necessary and specific information for Vietnamese companies and Japanese firms doing business in the Southeast Asian country via its regular news bulletins in both Vietnamese and Japanese. The forum also held a conference named "Introduction of the Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement” in the central province of Binh Dinh on June 18 and in Hanoi on June 25 this year. Each conference attracted representatives from 150 enterprises.
With the development of the Vietnam-Japan e-portal, in the first six months of this year, more than 3,000 members traded 1,500 products and 57 offers through the portal.
The forum held the conference “Introducing boiler Miura – Maruse” in Hanoi on February 2009. The event drew attention of companies in the fields of garment and textile, restaurants, hotels and hospitals not only in Hanoi but also others localities nationwide.
The forum has joined hands with the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) to receive the Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren) and organised the Vietnam-Japan Economic Forum in Hanoi on March 3. The forum was attended by over 200 Vietnamese businesses and nearly 100 firms in the areas of manufacturing, trade and consultancy. The event saw the participation of Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba as well as many high-ranking officials of Japan’s Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry.
The Vietnam-Japan Business Forum also held two talks on Japan’s economic development and its process to overcome challenges on March 11 and companies’ social responsibility on April 28 in Hanoi. The talks lured leaders from nearly 100 Vietnamese businesses and 500 economic students.
VCCI also said that, the Vietnam-Japan Business Forum will continue its activities and develop the Vietnam-Japan e-portal; publish the Vietnam-Japan news bulletin and help the VCCI branches to organise investment and trade promotion activities in Vietnam. It will continue “Administration in global groups” events and other relevant events. Within the framework of the forum, a delegation of 40 Vietnamese businesses will come to Japan to attend the Vietnam-Japan Economic Forum and the 35th ASEAN – Japan Business Meeting will take place in HCM City in the time to come.
Ha Le
Vietnamese
